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They are claiming they found the debris field now.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/f-35-fighter-jet-missing-pilot-ejects-mishap-rcna105534
All the peeps who were braying about stealth being a non-thing are eating a massive crow now. :D
Apparently the transponder didn't work, and neither did the plane since the pilot ejected. That's some grade A tech there.
Joint Base Charleston said in a statement that searchers who had been looking for the missing warplane located the wreckage in Williamsburg County, north of Charleston, but stopped short of confirming it was from the missing jet.
They “stopped short?” What? That hardly “ends the mystery.” And, why stop short? What’s causing the confusion? Was the evidence completely burned up into ashes like in Lahaina, or did the jet self-destruct or something? What’s stopping the Marine Corp from identifying the wreckage of its own plane? ...
They haven’t explained why the pilot ejected from the plane. According to reliable sources, a Marine pilot would never have ejected from an operational aircraft absent orders to do so. ...
The accident’s description of the software glitch was terrifically provocative: It sounded like the plane was trying to take over and fly itself:
As they prepared to land, the pilot felt a “slight rumbling” of turbulence from the wake of the aircraft in front of him, the report said. The bumpy air caused the F-35′s flight controls to register incorrect flight data, and the jet stopped responding to the pilot’s attempts at manual control.
The pilot tried to abort the landing and try again, but the jet responded by sharply banking to the left. Further attempts to right the aircraft failed, and the pilot safely ejected north of the base. His F-35 crashed near a runway at Hill.
How curious. I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t land the plane right now.
Complex tech does fail sometimes. Even simple tech does. Fucking flintlocks fail to fire now and then. You are in SW QA, aren't you? So you know how the sausage is made.
RWSGFY says
Complex tech does fail sometimes. Even simple tech does. Fucking flintlocks fail to fire now and then. You are in SW QA, aren't you? So you know how the sausage is made.
I just know that tech is routinely over-hyped, and government contracts produce some of the most half-assed equipment manufactured anywhere. I've never taken government contracts for moral reasons, but I've heard plenty from people who have.
Without government contracts there won't be any military equipment. Without military equipment there won't be military. You aren't proposing we go w/o military, are you?
ABC quoted one of its regular news contributors, retired Colonel Steve Ganyard, who was shocked that the military could somehow “lose” the plane for 28 hours. "Even though it's a stealth aircraft, losing a stealth aircraft is hard to understand. ... It does seem ridiculous that an aircraft this expensive, this sophisticated, it could just vanish," he said.
Yes. It does seem ridiculous. Ridiculous and indescribably shameful.
You might also muse about how it’s odd to lose any kind of aircraft only one mile from the airport. Plus, the plane basically continued on the same line after the pilot ejected:
Did they even try flying the flight path in a helicopter? It was only 80 miles away right along the flight path. It should have taken them only half an hour to find it.
To be clear, we don’t have any idea what caused the crash or why it took the military 28 hours to find the crash site. Yesterday I speculated about nefarious Chinese hackers, and some skeptical commenters thought the theory premature. But I wasn’t the only one wondering about that theory. The UK Daily Mail ran this story:
It wouldn’t be the first time the military got hacked this year. Remember Jack Texiera? The young part-time Texas national guard member and video game aficionado who supposedly hacked all our intelligence agencies and downloaded embarrassing Ukraine intel that showed Biden had been lying for a year?
Like a lost F35 fighter jet, Texiera completely vanished off the news radar in May. But I digress.
According to the Mail’s article, a four-year-old GAO report warned the $80 million F35’s systems “provided a back door for hackers.” POGO, a military watchdog agency, also released a report in 2019 showing that nearly every software-enabled weapon system they tested between 2012 and 2017 can be hacked - including the F-35. ...
As if that weren’t enough, also in 2019 the Pentagon itself confirmed the F35B — the same plane that just crashed in Charleston — has already been hacked by the Chinese.
As I understand it, somebody with a Chinese accent called the Pentagon saying they needed the F35 login password to update the antivirus software.
As I understand it, somebody with a Chinese accent called the Pentagon saying they needed the F35 login password to update the antivirus software.
Bad weather? C'mon. This thing can fly way, way above any bad weather.
AmericanKulak says
Bad weather? C'mon. This thing can fly way, way above any bad weather.
And through any bad weather. All military warplanes are seriously IFR equipped and max use is made of IFR on every flight regardless of weather conditions. The only rule in the Air Force was never to penetrate a thunderstorm in peacetime. Nobody bails out because the weather got bad. I will comment on "flying above any bad weather," though. Thunderstorms in the Midwest top often out above 50,000 ft, so no flying above those.
Ceffer says
https://t.me/drue86/44761
I thought they were $80 million
All She/They/Them had to do was pull up and gain a few thousand feet in altitude, which anybody who spent hundreds of hours in a T-34 Mentor could easily do.
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I could see if it was flying a few hundred feet off the ground under total Emmissions Control on a mission, but on a flight in the US?
Furthermore, there were TWO planes on the mission. The wingman didn't not the time and place of the bailout, and then they could calculate the trajectory of the plane from there?
More to this story than what we're being told.